2. Learn How to Remember and practice doing so
If you haven’t already, we suggest you read the article on Memory Improvement on our home page, and learn about the two different ways to improve your memory.
Then from those articles and links make some notes, and build yourself a plan for improving your memory.
To broaden your knowledge and sharpen your skills for making and retrieving memories, consider reading one or more of the following books.
Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
by Kevin Horsley | Mar 28, 2016
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari and Random House Audio
Limitless Expanded Edition: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life by Jim Kwik | Nov 14, 2023
How to Remember Everything in The Book of Mormon
Part of: How To Remember Everything 4 part series on how to remember what we read. | by David R Larsen and Brett D Benson | 2006
You can find any of those simply by going to Amazon.com and then doing a search for that title.
3. Keep a Memory Book of cues or clues to help you remember
Here’s a strategy you can use to help you remember memory cues
See Tips For Creating Memorable Ques to Use in Remembering Names
4. Practice Puzzle Solving – cross word or Jigsaw puzzles. There are lots of books of puzzles, crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles etc, available at book stores or dollar stores, or in various newspapers. And some research suggests these can help to sharpen one’s ability to retrieve words and see patterns.
But going back to the findings from the Nun study, doing crossword puzzles may be helpful, but if you’ve been doing that for a while, it might be better to switch to some other more challenging activity, like doing jigsaw puzzles or Sudoku for example. And if you are good a jigsaw puzzles or Sudoku you may want to switch to crossword puzzles, etc. tic tac toe, or chess or even checkers
